Show want ft duchesne foremost among the recommendations in the biennial report ot of dr E G gowans head of the state industrial school Is ono one advocating the state to procure the abandoned site bite ot of fort Du duchesne chesno tor for acome ahome tor for feeble tee minded the superintendent outlines that feeble mindedness la is increasing at an alarming rate and Is responsible lor for much of 0 the crime the lack ot of a proper institution to care for these unfortunates at the present time la Is outlined in the report this clas ot of people cannot be efficiently handled bandied by the state mental hospital nor can the prison accomplish the results to bo be desired in the opinion of the superintendent for this reason the superintendent asks that the state take steps toward inducing the government to give the sate of utah the old military reservation at duchesne tor for a reformatory intermediate institution or home for the feeble minded the report of the superintendent points out the need of an institution with concise observation made during the period of his office according to the report thirty two women have been released from the industrial school during the last five years ahti were feeble minded eighteen of this number have given birth to thirty children since the date of their heir release nine of the thirty children were born out of wedlock in july 1914 there were fifteen feeble minded girls in the state industrial du school the superintendent points out that the affliction Is transmitted from parents to heir children and an d declares hat feeble mindedness is increasing at an alarming rate feeble minded people bare are increasing twice as fast as normal minded people dr gowans gowana believes that the marriage laws should be made stricter in order to check the marriages that will increase the affliction of t ehfe world the report declares that feeble minded women and girls are a greater menace to society than feeble minded men and boys the state should have some institution between the industrial school and the state prison tor for the care of those those who are not vicious criminals yet should not be allowed to remain la in either the state prison or the industrial du schol according to the report it also recommends a more careful juvenile delinquency and that the state should establish a home finding and child placing bureau burea would concern itself in the finding of suitable homes tor for children the report covers pages of typewritten matter and gives elves in fix detail the work of the school for tho alast last two years dr gowans declares that the school needs three more cottages for the use ot of officers and teachers so that they may be close to the school at nights instead of living at some distance from the school the superintendent asks that an appropriation of be made tor for 1915 16 tor for the maintenance of the institution the T e report shows that during the last two years boys and aid girls have been paroled from the school the majority of them are reported as doing well the boys released during the last two years kave earned a total of salt lake telegram aside from the above this paper has long advocated that tua tb state secure the sie ale of fort duchene and set it apart as a branch ol of the state agricultural college |